604 MTJCEDIKES. 



1812. Oidium fructigenum. ScJirad. "Fruit Oidium.'' 



Tufts siibcompact, at first villons, witli white branched flocci, 

 then with simple, cream-coloured fiocci breaking up into oval, 

 pellucid joints. — BerJc. Eng. Fl. v. p. 349. Kunze. Mijc. Steft. 

 t. 2,/. 22. Torulafructigena. Pers. Ohs. t. 1,/. 7. Corda. ii.f, 34 . 



On decayed pears, apples, plums, &c. [United States.] 



** There is a distinct hemisphoeric black stroma resembling a Sderotium, 

 Cream coloured, greyisli or fawn-coloured." — M. J. B. 



1813. Oidium fasciculatuxn. BerTi. "Fasciculate Oidium." 



Filaments branched, somewhat fasciculate, erect, forming- 

 spreading tufts, white at first, at length of a fine glaucous hue. 

 BerJc. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 349. Acr^osporium fasciculatum. Grev. FL 

 Ed.pA69. 



On putrefying oranges. 



''Commencing at first in minute, distinct, pulverulent spots, wliicb 

 speedily become confluent and deep glaucous." — Grev. 



1814. Oidium porriginis. Mont. M.S.S. " Porrigo Oidium." 



Mycelium fiexuous, simple, branched or forked, without 

 septa; spores OYoid, or triangular or quadrilateral, with the 

 angles rounded, variable. — B. 4' Br. A Jin. N.H. no. 546. Achorion 

 SchcenJeirdi. Bemate in Rohin. t. 3,f. 10. Fox, shin diseases 1863, 

 t. i.j. 1. Kuchenmeister t. 3,/". 6. 



On Borrifjo lupnnosa. 



1815. Oidium favorum. B.&Br. " Honey-comb Oidium." 



Fiocci erect, septate ; spores yellow, short, subcylindrical. — 

 Ann. N.H. 7io. 762, 1. 16,/, 14. 



On honey-comb. 



Fiocci erect, white, septate, and slightly torulose below j above bearing 

 a few short cylindrical yellow spores. These spores when fallen seem to 

 acquire a septum, and then to be gradually attenuated at either end. A new 

 septum is then formed in either division constituting an irregularly fusiform 

 body.— iJ.cL-i^r. 



1816. Oidium aequivocum. B.^-Br. "Equivocal Oidium.*' 



Tufts inconspicuous to the naked eye; fiocci of spores, erect, 

 simple ; spores elongated, apiculate at each end, diaphanous, 

 whitish. — Ann. N.H. no. 821. Torula cequivoca. Corda. ii. t. 9. 

 /. 37. 



On Polyporus Schweinitzii. 



